The sound of the horn "woo" sounded, the flying dust almost obscured the sky, countless people and horses galloped back and forth in the dust, and the rumbling sound of iron hooves stepping on the ground sounded from all directions. There was a deafening roar that suppressed everything in the world. This terrifying momentum came from tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, who formed a seemingly scattered but in fact regular formation, surging back and forth in the endless wilderness on the west bank of the Yellow River with a surging attitude, rushing towards the formation of the Western Xia army, repeatedly rushing towards the formation of the Western Xia army.

The roar of the warriors, the neighing of the horses, and the sharp whistling of the arrows that came out of the string, and the screams and wails after the arrows, all shook the hearts of the heavens, the earth, and the people.

Gao Yi and Xibi He were stationed on a small dirt slope, looking at the current situation on the battlefield with great annoyance, obviously the current battle situation was quite unfavorable to the Western Xia army.

While the Song army, the Western Xia army, and the Jin army were engaged in a fierce war on the land east of the Yellow River, Temujin also led the Mongol army to attack from the city of Arahai and launched an attack on Xingqing Province along the west bank of the Yellow River. The first targets of the attack were the cities of Lou Bobei and Keyimen.

Lou Bobei City is the seat of the military division of Baimaqiang Town, and the city of Keyimen is the seat of the military division of the right chamber Chaoshun, and the Western Xia generals Gao Yi and Xibi He, who are responsible for blocking the Mongolian army here, have also arrived in office, and the combined troops of the two cities have more than 70,000 people, and the strength is roughly equivalent to the Mongolian army.

Gao Yi and Xibihe were both important ministers of the Western Xia military, and their seniority was second only to that of Ling Gong, who was killed in battle, and Gao Shandu, who was fighting against the Song army in Xiangqing. It's just that there have been no major wars in Western Xia for several years, so although the two are military generals, they rarely have the opportunity to show their own ability, and they don't even have the time to lead the army independently.

Although Li Renxiao gave them the task of only holding the two cities and blocking the Mongol army, but now both of them have enough troops in their hands, so they are unwilling to blindly defend passively, and they are also thinking about how to strike at the Mongol army, and it is best to force the Mongol army to retreat and establish merit for themselves. And from the overall situation, if the Mongol army can really be repulsed, the Western Xia can fully deal with the attack of the Song army, and the pressure will be greatly reduced.

Of course, although Gao Yi and Xibihe have rarely fought wars, they are not reckless and rash and self-righteous people. It is also known that most of this steppe nomad are brave and warlike, good at riding and shooting, and come and go as fast as the wind, and their movements are unpredictable, which is very difficult to deal with. However, the two still believed that these steppe Tartars were nothing more than a group of barbarians, although they were eager to kill and warlike, but after all, they were simple-minded, so it was not difficult to outwit them.

After the two discussed, it was decided to use the two cities of Lou Bobei and Keyimun as horns for each other, and the two sides echoed each other, and if the Mongol army came to attack which city, the defenders would rely on the city defense to lure the main force of the Mongol army to come to the decisive battle. The other city immediately sent troops to support the attack, and then joined forces with the outside to defeat the Mongol army. Even if you can't defeat the Mongol army, then you can retreat into the city and hold on without a fight, and you can complete the task given to you by the king. And when the Mongol army lost all patience and had to withdraw its troops, and then pursued, there was also a great chance of victory.

It should be said that this is also a steady and reasonable tactic that is both offensive and defensive. Therefore, after discussing the decision, the two immediately actively prepared for a decisive battle with the Mongol army. But what the two did not expect was that the Mongol army came to attack the city of Loubobe or the city of Keyimun. Instead, they bypassed the fortified city and launched a sweep on the vast land on the west bank of the Yellow River.

After capturing the city of Arahai, Temujin knew that the Mongol army lacked the necessary siege soldiers and experience, as well as all kinds of equipment for attacking the city. And the previous strategy to take Arahai City is also indispensable. Therefore, there was no hurry to storm the fortified cities of Western Xia. He just stationed the army near the Dengkou more than 80 miles north of the city of Keyimun, and then ordered Zhibe, Subutai and Muhuali to lead 10,000 Mongolian cavalry troops respectively, and divided the troops into three routes to plunder the villages and towns outside the city.

Because it is impossible for all the common people to live in the city, along the Yellow River, because of the Yellow River irrigation, there are many villages and towns, so there are also a large number of Western Xia people, at this time naturally became the object of the Mongol army's plunder.

After the three men of Zebetsu , Subutai and Mu Huali set out under their leadership, they launched a ruthless and brutal sweep of the villages and towns outside the city, burning houses at will, trampling on crops, plundering wealth and food, and plundering the population. When encountering a small group of Western Xia troops, they unceremoniously launched an attack, and when they encountered a large group of Western Xia people, they immediately avoided it. Because the speed of the Mongol army was extremely fast, the replenishment was solved by robbery on the spot, so the Western Xia army was exhausted, and it also caused Gao Yi and Xibihe a headache.

In more than ten days, most of the villages and towns on the west bank of the Yellow River were looted by the Mongol army, and in addition to the old, weak, sick and disabled who were killed, a large number of middle-aged men, women, children and wealth were plundered by the Mongol army to the city of Arahai for temporary custody, and when the troops were withdrawn, they were escorted back to the grassland.

Gao Yi and Xibihe led a large army to encircle and suppress the Mongol army twice, but each time they reached the villages looted by the Mongol army, they were one step late, allowing the Mongol army to escape, leaving only the corpses of the people who had been slaughtered because they could not be taken away, and the burning cottages and houses, so as to pass through the trampled farmland and orchards. Then there are those who escaped from the iron hooves of the Mongol army by luck, and let out heart-rending cries around the corpses of their loved ones.

Seeing the scene after these atrocities of the Mongol army, Gao Yi and Xibihe also felt uncomfortable. Many of their soldiers were locals, and among the dead were their relatives, villagers, and friends, and everyone was filled with righteous indignation and asked to go to war to attack the Mongol army. The two discussed carefully again, and finally decided to take the initiative and directly attack the Mongol army camp stationed at the mouth.

However, Gao Yi and Xibi He Bi were both serious people, and although they were indignant at the brutality of the Mongol army, they did not lose their minds and attacked early. A detailed and prudent plan of attack was still drawn up. This time, the Western Xia dispatched a total of 60,000 troops, divided into two teams. Gao Yi led 30,000 cavalry as the front team, and Xibihe led 30,000 infantry troops to respond, and the two teams were about ten miles apart, and kept in touch at any time.

If he encountered the Mongols on the way to the army, Gao Yi immediately led his army to engage them, because the front team of the Western Xia army was all cavalry, and if the Mongol army fled, it was better to pursue, and once the Mongol army was defeated, it was better to immediately withdraw and join the rear team to deal with the Mongol army. And if the Mongols let go of the front team and directly attacked the rear team, then Xibihe immediately organized a defense in the same place, took a defensive position, and waited for Gao Yi to lead the front team to come to help.

After the two made a tactical plan, they thought about it again and again, and felt that it was indeed foolproof, so they gathered men and led the army to attack.

This time, the Mongols sent an army of 65,000 to attack Western Xia, including 15,000 infantry troops. After the capture of the city of Arhai, Temujin left behind eight infantry troops and 2,000 cavalry to defend the city, and at this time 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry escorted the captive people and plundered wealth back to the city. Moreover, among the three armies that attacked, only Jebe and Subutai led the army back in time, so there are only 37,000 men and horses in the Mongol camp now.

But for Temujin, this was enough. The Mongol army plundered the villages outside the city, on the one hand, to plunder food, wealth and population, and on the other hand, it was also to provoke the Western Xia army, so that the Western Xia army took the initiative to fight from the city, so that there was a chance to face the Western Xia army in the field. Now that the fighter plane has finally arrived, Temujin naturally can't let it go. Moreover, judging from the previous battles, the combat effectiveness of the Western Xia army was much worse than that of the Mongols' previous opponents, the Kereh and Naiman tribes. Therefore, Temujin was also confident that as long as the Mongol army was good at field battles, he would definitely be able to defeat an opponent twice as many as himself.

In this way, both sides decided to go to war, and a new round of war was about to begin.

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In the early morning, the lightsaber of the morning sun pierced through the light haze and returned light to the earth. In the vast Gobi steppe, you can see undulating hills or weathered rocks that protrude through the air.

According to the plan formulated in advance, Gao Yi led 30,000 Western Xia cavalry to take the lead from Loubobei City, diagonally through the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert, and advanced to the Mongolian army stationed at Dengkou.

There is a distance of about seventy miles between Lou Bobei City and Dengkou, although it will not take half a day for the cavalry to complete this distance, but because they always have to maintain a distance from the rear team, they must control the speed of the advance, and at the same time, Gao Yi also constantly sends people to contact the rear team to understand the progress of the rear team, and sometimes stop and wait. Although he walked a little slower, he was able to maintain the physical strength of the Western Xia army. Moreover, Gao Yi also constantly sent spies to the left and right fronts to find out if there was any movement of the Mongol army.

In this way, a morning passed, and the Western Xia army also walked more than thirty miles. The closer we get to the banks of the Yellow River, the more sandy soil in the Gobi gradually decreases, and the grasslands and trees gradually increase. At this time, it was noon, although the Western Xia army was walking slowly, but many people were hungry, Gao Yi was about to order the whole army to rest in place, and then continue to advance after eating.

I saw the dust in front of me, and a Mongolian cavalry appeared in front of Gao Yi on the left. The number of the whole army was about three thousand.

When Gao Yi saw it, he was also determined in his heart, everyone was a cavalry army, and he had 30,000 horses, so it was impossible to lose to 3,000 horses. Therefore, he did not bother to let the soldiers rest and eat, and immediately ordered an attack.

Seeing that the Western Xia army was attacking, the Mongol army did not meet the battle, but turned the horse's head and turned around and left.